Where was that ABC cinema, I seem to recall seeing it when I was younger, can't remember when though, I have a feeling somewhere down Ferensway? When did it go/change to something else.
Cheers, just found this on Wiki! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_cinemas_in_Kingston_upon_Hull#
Never saw the Stones but I used to live down Hawthorn Ave and one Saturday when on my way to the Co-op for me mam there were 4 or 5 scruffy looking guys sat on the kerb edge each eating fish & chips from a newspaper, scruffier than the Stones. It wasn't until a couple of days later I found out who the scruffs were, a chart topping group as it happened The Pretty Things. (They were far from it actually)
Paul McCartney was spotted at a fish and chip shop on Beverley Road after early Wings performed at the university.
Believe it or not I think Wings in those days were taking their gear around in one van. Who’s Wings? Alan Partridge: They’re only the band The Beatles could have been.
So was I. Compared to the Beatles appearance there in Nov 1963,however, it was a quiet night. Then it was bedlam with mass hysteria with 'Beatlemania' abounding. A line of bouncers in front of the stage was confronted by girls hurling themselves at them to try to get through and the noise was unimaginable. My ears did not stop ringing for days. I lived in London for a few years in the sixties and managed to see many stars of that era. A weekly live TV show" Sunday Night at the Palladium" was watched by over 20 million in the UK( almost half the population in those days) and I went to some of them. While almost every other local and international act wanted to appear on the show, the Rolling Stones declined for years saying words to the effect that it "would destroy their anti- establishment reputation".
"Sunday Night at the London Palladium" There were a few name changes after 1966 but it wasn't until 2014 that it didn't have London in the title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Night_at_the_Palladium
OK, I started it, hhh - but you and many others built it into what it is now. I've got another to add, too, when I can remember how to do so ()
Just think: When I was young there were no computers, no mobile phones and no Sky or TV recording. If you wanted to watch a TV programme you had to stop what you were doing and watch it being broadcast. I had a choice of watching ITV or BBC. It did make you watch things you might not normally watch but now you only watch things you know you are going to like and you search for them. You never go near a vast part of TV. You used to arrange to meet people and you couldn't contact them until you turned up. If anybody was late nobody knew why and how to make alternative arrangements. If you wanted to meet a girl you had to go to a pub or club or a park or meet them on the street on the way home from a club. There was none of this phone apps or online dating.
Ah, it was wee. And there was me thinking those daft, excited wee squirts of a thing, were getting all gushy over a daft band.
